Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY
BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,940 to it, the largest being BFD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY END TA ($1,249,765). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $519k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Bradford Area Public Library does
Mission
To provide the resources to inform, educate, and enrich our community in a way that demonstrates literacy, equal access and diversity, life-long learning, fiscal responsibility and integrity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Bradford Area Public Library provides a variety of educational and entertaining programs for the Bradford community, including summer reading, Story Seekers storytime, art club, teen book club, teen and middle school summer workshops, and adult programs like Coffee with a Curator and Creative Share. In 2019, the library held 570 programs, attended by 839 adults, 509 teens, and 10,867 children. The library also offers reference, reading, video, and audio materials to all people in the Bradford area and surrounding communities. The library loaned 43,002 items in 2019. The library has 19 free computers available to the public, equipped with an Internet browser and Microsoft Office, as well as a free Wi-Fi connection.
$542,309 spent$569,234 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $542,309.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.9M to $5.8M (−16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 31% · 2018 60% · 2019 17% · 2020 33% · 2021 14% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rebecca Feightner
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $106k → $147k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 89% · 2019 87% · 2020 93% · 2021 96% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,940 to it, the largest being BFD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY END TA ($1,249,765). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,388,940 in grants to BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- BFD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY END TA is the largest funder on record, with $1,249,765 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing